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Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits Ethanol content of Treculia africana fruit and sharing by chimpanzees.

Wild chimps filmed getting lashed - and some habits are very similar to humans'

Tech 4 days ago By Jen Mills

Colourful boats lying on the sandy Tarrafal beach in Cape Verde.

EasyJet launches longest ever flights to 'breathtaking' tropical island for just £134

Travel March 7, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton

Health workers tour the treatment rooms at the Munigi mpox treatment center in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The absence of shots and challenges in understanding the spread of the disease in the central African country underscore how hold-ups on the ground, a lack of international coordination and funding problems have hampered a swift response.??Photographer: Arlette Bashizi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Fears mystery illness 'could spread to other countries' after infecting over 400 in Congo

World February 27, 2025 By Jen Mills

Doctor James Wakilonga Zanguilwa records information from an mpox patient at the Kamituga treatment centre in South Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mystery disease kills more than 50 people in a matter of hours

World February 26, 2025 By Jasper King

A parasitologist with the Sleeping Sickness programme, and an entomologist from the National Sleeping Sickness Program Entomologist, Guinea, dissect a tsetse fly outside of the Dubreka laboratory.

How a country wiped out sleeping sickness - the disease where a deadly drug is the cure

World February 23, 2025 By Luke Alsford

Couple on honeymoon part of '1,400 others' who fell ill at popular holiday destination

World December 2, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

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EasyJet launches longest ever six hour route from UK to tropical island for £134

Travel March 7, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton

epa11625914 Two-month-old female pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng pictured at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, 26 September 2024. Moo Deng, a female baby pygmy hippo became the zoo's starlet and global online celebrity after a zookeeper Atthapon Nundee posted videos of her on social media. The zoo has launched a 24-hour live stream to serve her fans worldwide as well as sold the Moo Deng souvenirs. The popularity of Moo Deng resulted in 50 percent increased number of visitors at Khao Kheow Open Zoo with more than 81,000 people visited the zoo since 01 to 19 September making the zoo earned more than 12 million baht (365,000 US dollars or 327,000 euro), according to Khao Kheow Open Zoo's director Narongwit Chodchoy. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT

Celebrity baby hippo's natural habitat has disappeared - here's why

World October 25, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case Mpox.

Mpox has mutated and has been upgraded to a 'global health emergency'

World August 15, 2024 By Jasper King

Dozens of Wagner mercenaries killed in 'worst battlefield loss in years'

World July 29, 2024 By Tom Sanders

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Voodoo palace’s red walls finally explained – and it’s grim

Tech June 4, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi

Only on a Kenyan safari could you see an elephant wander freely past a football pitch

Travel April 12, 2024 By Jeremy Ullmann

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Something amazing is happening in the waters of the 'African Galapagos'

World April 7, 2024 By Kirsten Robertson

Newborn baby miraculously survives after mum, 23, buried her alive

World April 4, 2024 By Katie Boyden

Same-sex couple, Naa Shika, 37, a fetish priestess, and her partner Kay, 27, a human rights activist, sit together during a discussion on the topic of Fiducia Supplicans, a Declaration approved by Pope Francis, that allows Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples, in Accra, Ghana. January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Ghana passes ‘draconian’ law making ‘identifying’ as LGBTQ+ illegal

World March 3, 2024 By Josh Milton

FILE PHOTO: Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara speaks next to his wife Dominique after casting their votes at a polling station during the presidential election in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo

Ivory Coast president unexpectedly sacks PM and dissolves government

World October 6, 2023 By Tom Sanders

Sierra Leone's cotton tree, a centuries-old symbol of freedom, toppled by storm

News May 25, 2023 By Josh Milton

Workers hold a donkey's hide before curing at a licensed slaughterhouse specialised in donkeys in Baringo, on February 28, 2017. The emergence of the global trade in donkey hide attributed mainly to the rise of Chinas middle class and an increased perception of the medicinal efficacy of a gelatine derived after boiling the hides, that is a key ingredient in a medicine called 'ejiao' has raised the price and the rate of slaughter of the animal. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Gangsters cashing in on black market donkey hides

World January 13, 2023 By Will Neal

Kiswensida Farouk Aziz Sorgho announces on television that army captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted Burkina Faso's military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government and constitution, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 30, 2022, in this still image obtained from a video. Radio Television Burkina Faso/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT. BURKINA FASO OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN BURKINA FASO

Armed soldiers announce second coup in eight months in Burkina Faso

UK October 1, 2022 By Tom Sanders

Man mauled to death by lion after climbing into zoo enclosure

World August 30, 2022 By Jen Mills

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